Plex has the “luxury” of auto-configuring my router and somehow mapping its IP so I can “just connect” from everywhere.

Let’s be reasonable. If you’re going to be away from home I’m sure you don’t need all of your content “at a moments notice”.

If you do you wherever you are that’s you’re new home!

In this instance my advice would be to get a small SBC or RasPi + some external storage which you could load up + rotate your content when you travel.

For me I’d add a “travel router” which provides:

• Expansion of number of devices that can access the internet(hotels)
• Minimization of security + privacy configs across devices as it can be setup on one - the router
• Access to SBC/Raspi(and my content) on the LAN